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I modified a customer payment due to a slight exchange rate difference, and noticed there's a duplicate entry as "Foreign Exchange Gain" in the GL

Situation(Example):

1. Customer made an advance payment of US$ 1000.00 on 01/01/2013 and the exchange rate is INR Rs 50.00
2. Invoiced to the customer on 10/01/2013, and the exchange rate is INR Rs 51.00

Now the GL Entries as follows which seems correct!

# Sales 51000.00 CR
#AR 51000.00 DR
#Sales 1000.00 CR
#Foreign Exchange Gain 1000.00 DR

3. Modify the exchange rate for 01/01/2013 to INR Rs 50.50
4. Modify the Customer Payment and save the entry to affect the exchange rate difference. This happens if there's a rate difference between payment and invoice date too(I guess this method which I used is wrong, and correct method may be to do a "Currency Revaluation". But here in my case there's only one entry so far and I feel it as a bug)

Now the entries are as follows;

# Sales 50500.00 CR
#AR 50500.00 DR
#Sales 500.00 CR
#Foreign Exchange Gain 500.00 DR
#Sales 1000.00 CR
#Foreign Exchange Gain 1000.00 DR

Did anybody come across this scenario? Is this a bug or something which I am not aware (I am not an accounting person)

Thanks.,
Lino